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4 unusual facts about National Industrial Recovery Act


Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers

Passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act on June 16, 1933 sparked widespread union organizing throughout the country.

American Iron and Steel Institute

In 1933, at the depths of the Great Depression, United States Congress adopted the National Industrial Recovery Act, and AISI was called upon by the federal government to act for the steel industry in the establishment and administration of a Code of Fair Competition.

National Industrial Recovery Act

Among the projects it funded between 1935 and 1939 are: the USS Yorktown; USS Enterprise; the 30th Street railroad station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Triborough Bridge; the port of Brownsville; Grand Coulee Dam; Boulder Dam; Fort Peck Dam; Bonneville Dam; and the Overseas Highway connecting Key West, Florida, with the mainland.

Steel Workers Organizing Committee

Passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) on June 16, 1933, sparked widespread union organizing throughout the country, even in the steel industry.



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